📍 West Houston, Houston

Chef Hong Tran turned a backyard brisket hobby into a Michelin-recommended restaurant fusing Texas BBQ with Vietnamese flavors. Jasmine fried rice tossed with fried egg and Chinese...

Energy Corridor's most-reviewed Italian room, on Grisby Road with a family-run feel that's lasted through every oil bust and boom. Handmade pasta, veal preparations, the kind of re...

A stylish West Houston Vietnamese kitchen from the people behind Pho Binh, covering pho, banh mi, and craft drinks. The familiar pho-shop lineage shows in the cooking, but the room...

Cajun-French cafe in West Houston channeling Louisiana bayou country — boudin balls, shrimp po-boys, and gumbo. Weekend brunch brings beignets and chicory coffee. A neighborhood sp...

The West Houston location of Paulie's, the Montrose Italian mainstay going since 1998, where you can't go wrong with any dish. Pasta, pizza, and Italian hoagies are all done with c...

Texas-born brunch chain that earns its line out the door. Eggs Benedict, chicken and waffles, and a pancake stack that actually delivers. Casual enough for kids, mimosa-friendly en...

Fadi Dimassi's 1996 Mediterranean cafeteria flagship on Westheimer — the original location of a Houston Lebanese chain that turned cafeteria-style Mediterranean into a metro-wide i...

West Houston Mexican running breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Eldridge Pkwy. Breakfast burritos through late-night shrimp a la diabla — the kind of all-day range that keeps a neighb...